Welcome to the website of the Chantry Library, the resource centre for ICON.

We provide services to members and non-members with an interest in conservation and the work of conservators.

With a wide selection of holdings, including monographs, journals and key conference proceedings, the library aims to provide a balance of practice-based and research-led information to support the work of our members and to help raise awareness of heritage conservation issues beyond the boundaries of the profession.

What's New ?

Take a look at the latest ICON Chantry Library Subject Bibliographies
 - just click on the Japanese print image 

Chantry Library Opening Hours
From Mon 7th January 2013, the Library will be open for business as usual on Mondays (am), all-day Tuesdays, and Wednesdays (pm). For more details, please click here.

Chantry Library Resources Updates
These quarterly updates provide a compilation of the latest library acquisitions and news - new books, journals, conference papers, websites, bibliographies......and much more. March 2013 edition now available here.

Library Training Guides
A compilation of information skills training guides. Find out more here.  

Conservation Librarians Group
The next meeting of the Conservation Librarians Group will be at West Dean College on Monday June 17th. To find out more about the group, click here.

A Library Without Walls?

Along with the provision of traditional services, the Chantry Library also provides annotated links to aggregated Web Resources via delicious and the facility to search only these resources through the Heritage Conservation Search Engine. Whilst distance and time can prove barriers to visiting the physical library, we hope that the provision of remote services such as these will be useful to those interested in Heritage Conservation across the UK and beyond.

Track New Books and Journals at the Library in Real Time

You can now keep up-to-date with the arrival of new books and journals, future library events, and other library related news as and when it happens. Visit our Library News page to see it in action. You can even have the news come to you, rather than constantly visit the site - just subscribe to the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. Details of how to do this can be found on the Library News page - see the links under "RSS/News Feed Information" in the right-hand column for more details.

Why is the Library called the Chantry Library ?

To find out the answer to this question, and to learn more about the history of the Library, please click here.

Icon Chantry Library Advisory Committee

The Chantry Library Advisory Committee is composed of the Chair (Kate Colleran), the Honorary Librarian (Jane Eagan), and an External Consultant (Michael Williams). The Committee meets regularly to review progress and aid the librarian with forward planning, policy, and strategy. Read more here